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This comic is a sequel of sorts to [[445: I Am Not Good with Boomerangs]], as it deals with the same subject manner with the same panel layout. | This comic is a sequel of sorts to [[445: I Am Not Good with Boomerangs]], as it deals with the same subject manner with the same panel layout. | ||
| − | The first strip shows [[Cueball]] throwing a boomerang, which doesn't come back. | + | The first strip shows [[Cueball]] throwing a boomerang, which doesn't come back. In [[939: Arrow]], a boomerang returns to Cueball, which can either be the same Cueball from this comic or another person. Then he throws another boomerang, which somehow hurts the {{w|ozone layer}} (as indicated by an offscreen voice). The third strip shows Cueball throwing something what ''appears'' to be a boomerang, but then [[Megan]] appears and reveals that it was their last banana. |
| − | + | The final strip shows Cueball throwing one last boomerang, which breaks the frame of the comic. The last panel shows that he was actually inside a spacecraft (which resembles an {{w|Apollo Lunar Module}} in a very bad manner), and the boomerang has broken out through the hull. We see him tumbling out into space with the escaping air. | |
| − | The | + | The title text notes that, assuming one theory that the universe has a positive (closed) {{w|curvature}}, the boomerang would, after a long time, travel all the way around the universe to return where it started and hit Cueball at the back of his head. |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:[Cueball waits for boomerang.] | :[Cueball waits for boomerang.] | ||
:Outside: Oh God | :Outside: Oh God | ||
| − | :Outside: The | + | :Outside: The ozone layer! |
:[Cueball is surprised.] | :[Cueball is surprised.] | ||
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:[Boomerang breaks out of the panel box.] | :[Boomerang breaks out of the panel box.] | ||
| − | :[Boomerang breaks out of a | + | :[Boomerang breaks out of a spacecraft, followed by Cueball.] |
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
[[Category:Boomerangs]] | [[Category:Boomerangs]] | ||
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Revision as of 20:34, 13 March 2014
| Further Boomerang Difficulties |
 Title text: An eternity later, the universe having turned out to have positive curvature and lots of mass, the boomerang hits him in the back of the head. |
Explanation
This comic is a sequel of sorts to 445: I Am Not Good with Boomerangs, as it deals with the same subject manner with the same panel layout.
The first strip shows Cueball throwing a boomerang, which doesn't come back. In 939: Arrow, a boomerang returns to Cueball, which can either be the same Cueball from this comic or another person. Then he throws another boomerang, which somehow hurts the ozone layer (as indicated by an offscreen voice). The third strip shows Cueball throwing something what appears to be a boomerang, but then Megan appears and reveals that it was their last banana.
The final strip shows Cueball throwing one last boomerang, which breaks the frame of the comic. The last panel shows that he was actually inside a spacecraft (which resembles an Apollo Lunar Module in a very bad manner), and the boomerang has broken out through the hull. We see him tumbling out into space with the escaping air.
The title text notes that, assuming one theory that the universe has a positive (closed) curvature, the boomerang would, after a long time, travel all the way around the universe to return where it started and hit Cueball at the back of his head.
Transcript
- [Cueball is throwing boomerang.]
- [Holding his hands up.]
- [Cueball waits for return; continual waiting.]
- [Cueball is dejected, head hangs low.]
- [Cueball throws boomerang.]
- [Cueball waits for boomerang.]
- Outside: Oh God
- Outside: The ozone layer!
- [Cueball is surprised.]
- [Cueball throws boomerang banana.]
- [Cueball waits.]
- [Megan walks in.]
- Megan: That was our last banana.
- Megan: You're such an asshole.
- [Cueball throws boomerang.]
- [Boomerang breaks out of the panel box.]
- [Boomerang breaks out of a spacecraft, followed by Cueball.]
Trivia
- Part of this comic and 939: Arrow is the picture for the Brick Joke page on TV Tropes.
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Wow, that's a pretty cool spaceship. How does he leave? Me[citation needed] 15:02, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
I feel like he isn't leaning back in horror in the last strip. I rather think that, since he's in a spaceship with no gravity, the angular momentum makes him turn a bit. 162.158.222.45 22:38, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
